1 D-Bus 1.4.18 (UNRELEASED)
4 • Allow all configured auth mechanisms, not just one (fd.o #45106,
7 • Improve cmake build system (Ralf Habacker):
8 · simplify XML parser dependencies (fd.o #41027)
9 · generate build timestamp (fd.o #41029)
10 · only create batch files on Windows
11 · fix option and cache syntax
12 · add help-options target
13 · share dbus-arch-deps.h.in with autotools rather than having our
14 own version (fd.o #41033)
16 • Build tests successfully with older GLib, as found in e.g. Debian 6
17 (fd.o #41219, Simon McVittie)
19 • Build documentation correctly if man2html doesn't support filenames on
20 its command-line (fd.o #43875, Jack Nagel)
23 · Avoid a highly unlikely fd leak (fd.o #29881, Simon McVittie)
24 · Don't close invalid fd -1 if getaddrinfo fails (fd.o #37258, eXeC001er)
25 · Don't touch ~/.dbus and ~/.dbus-keyrings when running 'make installcheck'
26 (fd.o #41218, Simon McVittie)
29 · Find the dbus-daemon executable next to the shared library (fd.o #41558;
30 Jesper Dam, Ralf Habacker)
32 D-Bus 1.4.16 (2011-09-21)
35 The "this answerphone fails to answer the phone" release.
37 • If full test coverage is requested via --enable-tests, strictly require
38 Python, pygobject and dbus-python, which are required by some tests; if not,
39 and Python is missing, skip those tests rather than failing
40 (fd.o #37847, Simon McVittie)
42 • When using cmake, provide the same version-info API in the installed headers
43 as for autotools (DBUS_VERSION, etc.) (fd.o #40905, Ralf Habacker)
45 • Add a regression test for fd.o #38005 (fd.o #39836, Simon McVittie)
47 • Make "NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh" not run configure (Colin Walters)
49 • Add _DBUS_STATIC_ASSERT and use it to check invariants (fd.o #39636,
52 • Fix duplicates in authors list (Ralf Habacker)
54 • Fix broken links from dbus-tutorial.html if $(htmldir) != $(docdir)
55 (fd.o #39879, Chris Mayo)
57 • Fix a small memory leak, and a failure to report errors, when updating
58 a service file entry for activation (fd.o #39230, Simon McVittie)
61 · Clean up (non-abstract) Unix sockets on bus daemon exit (fd.o #38656;
62 Brian Cameron, Simon McVittie)
63 · On systems that use libcap-ng but not systemd, drop supplemental groups
64 when switching to the daemon user (Red Hat #726953, Steve Grubb)
65 · Make the cmake build work again on GNU platforms (fd.o #29228,
67 · Fix compilation on non-C99 systems that have inttypes.h but not stdint.h,
68 like Solaris (fd.o #40313, Dagobert Michelsen)
69 · Define CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_LEN, CMSG_SPACE on Solaris < 10
70 (fd.o #40235, Simon McVittie)
71 · Cope with Unixes that don't have LOG_PERROR, like Solaris 10
72 (fd.o #39987, Simon McVittie)
73 · Cope with platforms whose vsnprintf violates both POSIX and C99, like
74 Tru64, IRIX and HP-UX (fd.o #11668, Simon McVittie)
77 · Fix compilation on MSVC, which doesn't understand "inline" with its
78 C99 meaning (fd.o #40000; Ralf Habacker, Simon McVittie)
79 · Fix misuse of GPid in test/dbus-daemon.c (fd.o #40003, Simon McVittie)
81 D-Bus 1.4.14 (2011-07-29)
84 The "Puny receptacle!" release.
88 • Use DBUS_ERROR_OBJECT_PATH_IN_USE if dbus_connection_try_register_object_path
89 or dbus_connection_try_register_fallback fails, not ...ADDRESS_IN_USE
90 (fd.o #38874, Jiří Klimeš)
92 • Consistently use atomic operations on everything that is ever manipulated
93 via atomic ops, as was done for changes to DBusConnection's refcount in
94 1.4.12 (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
96 • Fix a file descriptor leak when connecting to a TCP socket (fd.o #37258,
99 • Make "make check" in a clean tree work, by not running tests until
100 test data has been set up (fd.o #34405, Simon McVittie)
102 • Fix various typos (fd.o #27227, fd.o #38284; Sascha Silbe, Simon McVittie)
104 • Documentation (fd.o #36156, Simon McVittie):
105 · let xsltproc be overridden as usual: ./configure XSLTPROC=myxsltproc
106 · install more documentation automatically, including man2html output
107 · put dbus.devhelp in the right place (it must go in ${htmldir})
110 · look for system services in /lib/dbus-1/system-services in addition to all
111 the other well-known locations; note that this should always be /lib,
112 even on platforms where shared libraries on the root FS would go in /lib64,
113 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or similar (fd.o #35229, Lennart Poettering)
114 · opt-in to fd passing on Solaris (fd.o #33465, Simon McVittie)
116 • Windows-specific (Ralf Habacker):
117 · fix use of a mutex for autolaunch server detection
118 · don't crash on malloc failure in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound
120 D-Bus 1.4.12 (2011-06-10)
123 Security (local denial of service):
125 • Byte-swap foreign-endian messages correctly, preventing a long-standing
126 local DoS if foreign-endian messages are relayed through the dbus-daemon
127 (backporters: this is git commit c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7)
128 (CVE-2011-2200, fd.o #38120, Debian #629938; Simon McVittie)
132 • The constant to use for an infinite timeout now has a name,
133 DBUS_TIMEOUT_INFINITE. It is numerically equivalent to 0x7fffffff (INT32_MAX)
134 which can be used for source compatibility with older versions of libdbus.
136 • If GLib and DBus-GLib are already installed, more tests will be built,
137 providing better coverage. The new tests can also be installed via
138 ./configure --enable-installed-tests
139 for system integration testing, if required. (fd.o #34570, Simon McVittie)
143 • Consistently use atomic operations for the DBusConnection's refcount,
144 fixing potential threading problems (fd.o #38005, Simon McVittie)
146 • Don't use -Wl,--gc-sections by default: in practice the size decrease is
147 small (300KiB on x86-64) and it frequently doesn't work in unusual
148 toolchains. To optimize for minimum installed size, you should benchmark
149 various possibilities for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and set the best flags for
150 your particular toolchain at configure time. (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
152 • Use #!/bin/sh for run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh, making it work on *BSD
153 (fd.o #35880, Timothy Redaelli)
155 • Use ln -fs to set up dbus for systemd, which should fix reinstallation
156 when not using a DESTDIR (fd.o #37870, Simon McVittie)
158 • Windows-specific changes:
159 · don't try to build dbus-daemon-launch-helper (fd.o #37838, Mark Brand)
161 D-Bus 1.4.10 (2011-06-01)
164 The "Ape Ale" release.
166 Notes for distributors:
168 This version of D-Bus no longer uses -fPIE by default. Distributions wishing
169 to harden the dbus-daemon and dbus-launch-helper can re-enable this if their
170 toolchain supports it reliably, via something like:
172 ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIE LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro"
174 or by using distribution-specific wrappers such as Debian's hardening-wrapper.
178 • Don't force -fPIE: distributions and libtool know better than we do whether
179 it's desirable (fd.o #16621, fd.o #27215; Simon McVittie)
180 • Allow --disable-gc-sections, in case your toolchain offers the
181 -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections options
182 but they're broken, as seen on Solaris (fd.o #33466, Simon McVittie)
183 • Install dbus-daemon and dbus-daemon-launch-helper in a more normal way
184 (fd.o #14512; Simon McVittie, loosely based on a patch from Luca Barbato)
185 • Ensure that maintainers upload documentation with the right permissions
186 (fd.o #36130, Simon McVittie)
187 • Log system-bus activation information to syslog (fd.o #35705,
189 • Log messages dropped due to quotas to syslog (fd.o #35358,
191 • Make the nonce-tcp transport work on Unix (fd.o #34569, Simon McVittie)
192 • On Unix, if /var/lib/dbus/machine-id cannot be read, try /etc/machine-id
193 (fd.o #35228, Lennart Poettering)
194 • In the regression tests, don't report fds as "leaked" if they were open
195 on startup (fd.o #35173, Simon McVittie)
196 • Make dbus-monitor bail out if asked to monitor more than one bus,
197 rather than silently using the last one (fd.o #26548, Will Thompson)
198 • Clarify documentation (fd.o #35182, Simon McVittie)
199 • Clean up minor dead code and some incorrect error handling
200 (fd.o #33128, fd.o #29881; Simon McVittie)
201 • Check that compiler options are supported before using them (fd.o #19681,
204 • Remove obsolete workaround for winioctl.h (fd.o #35083, Ralf Habacker)
206 D-Bus 1.4.8 (2011-04-08)
209 The "It's like the beginning of a lobster" release.
211 • Rename configure.in to configure.ac, and update it to modern conventions
212 (fd.o #32245; Javier Jardón, Simon McVittie)
213 • Correctly give XDG_DATA_HOME priority over XDG_DATA_DIRS (fd.o #34496,
215 • Prevent X11 autolaunching if $DISPLAY is unset or empty, and add
216 --disable-x11-autolaunch configure option to prevent it altogether
217 in embedded environments (fd.o #19997, NB#219964; Simon McVittie)
218 • Install the documentation, and an index for Devhelp (fd.o #13495,
219 Debian #454142; Simon McVittie, Matthias Clasen)
220 • If checks are not disabled, check validity of string-like types and
221 booleans when sending them (fd.o #16338, NB#223152; Simon McVittie)
222 • Add UnknownObject, UnknownInterface, UnknownProperty and PropertyReadOnly
223 errors to dbus-shared.h (fd.o #34527, Lennart Poettering)
224 • Break up a huge conditional in config-parser so gcov can produce coverage
225 data (fd.o #10887, Simon McVittie)
226 • List which parts of the Desktop Entry specification are applicable to
227 .service files (fd.o #19159, Sven Herzberg)
228 • Don't suppress service activation if two services have the same Exec=
229 (fd.o #35750, Colin Walters)
231 · Avoid the name ELEMENT_TYPE due to namespace-pollution from winioctl.h
233 · Include _dbus_path_is_absolute in libdbus on Windows, fixing compilation
234 (fd.o #32805, Mark Brand)
236 D-Bus 1.4.6 (2010-02-17)
239 The "1, 2, miss a few, 99, 100" release.
241 • Remove unfinished changes intended to support GTest-based tests,
242 which were mistakenly included in 1.4.4
244 D-Bus 1.4.4 (2010-02-17)
247 • Switch back to using even micro versions for stable releases; 1.4.1
248 should have been called 1.4.2, so skip that version number
249 • Don't leave bad file descriptors being watched when spawning processes,
250 which could result in a busy-loop (fd.o #32992, NB#200248; possibly
251 also LP#656134, LP#680444, LP#713157)
252 • Check for MSG_NOSIGNAL correctly
253 • Fix failure to detect abstract socket support (fd.o #29895)
254 • Make _dbus_system_logv actually exit with DBUS_SYSTEM_LOG_FATAL
255 (fd.o #32262, NB#180486)
256 • Improve some error code paths (fd.o #29981, fd.o #32264, fd.o #32262,
257 fd.o #33128, fd.o #33277, fd.o #33126, NB#180486)
258 • Avoid possible symlink attacks in /tmp during compilation (fd.o #32854)
259 • Tidy up dead code (fd.o #25306, fd.o #33128, fd.o #34292, NB#180486)
260 • Improve gcc malloc annotations (fd.o #32710)
261 • If the system bus is launched via systemd, protect it from the OOM killer
262 • Documentation improvements (fd.o #11190)
263 • Avoid readdir_r, which is difficult to use correctly (fd.o #8284,
264 fd.o #15922, LP#241619)
265 • Cope with invalid files in session.d, system.d (fd.o #19186,
267 • Don't distribute generated files that embed our builddir (fd.o #30285,
269 • Raise the system bus's fd limit to be sufficient for its configuration
270 (fd.o #33474, LP#381063)
271 • Fix syslog string processing
273 • Remove broken gcov parsing code and --enable-gcov, and replace them
274 with lcov HTML reports and --enable-compiler-coverage (fd.o #10887)
276 · avoid live-lock in Windows CE due to unfair condition variables
278 · support credentials-passing (fd.o #32542)
280 · opt-in to thread safety (fd.o #33464)
282 D-Bus 1.4.1 (20 December 2010)
285 • Fix for CVE-2010-4352: sending messages with excessively-nested variants can
286 crash the bus. The existing restriction to 64-levels of nesting previously
287 only applied to the static type signature; now it also applies to dynamic
288 nesting using variants. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont for discoving this
290 • OS X portability fixes, including launchd support.
291 • Windows autolaunch improvements.
294 D-Bus 1.4.0 (6 Sep 2010)
298 D-Bus 1.3.1 (23 June 2010)
300 - New standardized PropertiesChanged signal in the properties interface
301 - Various portability fixes, in particular to Windows platforms
302 - Support forking bus services, for compatibility
304 D-Bus 1.3.0 (29 July 2009)
306 - ability for dbus-send to send to any bus (--address)
307 - file descriptor passing on Unix socket transports
308 - use of GCC atomic intrinsics for better processor support
309 (requires -march=i486 or above for x86 compilation)
310 - thread-safe FD_CLOEXEC setting on recent Linux kernels (2.6.24-27 and up)
311 and glibc (2.9 for pipe2 and 2.10 for accept4)
312 - feature negotiation in the bus daemon